Muk is the genetic apex of [Pokémon]

Andy Joe

Medali gym went down easy, probably didn't need to grind quite as much as I did by the Center in the mountain pass. Giganacl seems designed to make this one easy, resists Starapter's Normal and Flying moves and learns Hammer Arm on evolution.

Gonna evolve my Tinkatuff on the way to the Dragon titan.

Cruor

Hexmage-PA wrote: »

Does the movement have to be constant? Like, do they have to be constantly moving without stopping at all? I don't mean being recalled into poke ball, but perpetually in motion.

It's cumulative, no need for constant motion or to feel like they need to take 1k steps all in one go.

Terrendos

But you do need to do the entire 1k steps in a single "outing." If you do 500 steps, recall the Pokemon, send them back out, do another 600 steps, it still won't be enough.

Polaritie

Terrendos wrote: »

But you do need to do the entire 1k steps in a single "outing." If you do 500 steps, recall the Pokemon, send them back out, do another 600 steps, it still won't be enough.

Pretty sure you don't, actually.

CorriganX

What I do to evolve them - walk the 1000 steps. Keep them out, do not put them away or run to try to get into fights as this has the possibility of despawning them. While they're out in lets go mode, use a rare candy on them. Do this all in one sitting without any extra stuff in between.

Ringo

Polaritie wrote: »

Terrendos wrote: »

But you do need to do the entire 1k steps in a single "outing." If you do 500 steps, recall the Pokemon, send them back out, do another 600 steps, it still won't be enough.

Pretty sure you don't, actually.

Yeah, my Pawmi evolved and I run around forcing recalls and recall to respawn constantly. It may have made it take longer but it still worked

Chall

The best tactic I've heard is to go to the top of a tower and run around since there's not enough space for the Poke to be recalled you don't have to worry about letting them catch up.

Just run circles around the little jerks

Polaritie

Yeah, going up on a watchtower or lighthouse is the easiest option for sure.

Enlong

I can’t believe they gave that requirement to some of the slowest walkers in the game. It couldn’t have been the mechanic for Varoom, nooo.

Zunde

For the step evolutions i just went to the schools track field and walked around the course 6 or so times.

Dr. Chaos

King Riptor wrote: »

Enlong wrote: »

Raid Greninja could be interesting.

It could either have Protean, so the party might need to choose types carefully, or Battle Bond, to make it snowball if he gets a KO.

Protean works differently now so it won't be as bad

Battle bond would be insane and make solo attempts that much harder

Couldn't pay me enough to run six star anihilape raids due to rage fist.

Only one I avoid like the plague.

Enlong

We need Hisuian Zoroark to handle this.

akThera

I stood on top of a Pokecenter. Bramblin spun in circles right underneath trying to path to me... 1k steps ez.

Logged in to maybe do some raids, turbo-failed a couple 5 star with online people. C'mon game freak, this isn't even fun. People weren't even doing stupid things honestly, maybe their stuff was just under-leveled. So frustrating that online is mostly failure, and solo is a crap shoot too because the NPCs can totally suck.

Failed every raid, quit the game and don't even really feel like trying them any more.

Zunde

My raid experience today was like

"6 Star Fire Gardevoir"

Iron hands has joined you
Koraidon has joined you
Koraidon has joined you

*All three lock in*

You know what maybe i don't want to do this raid.

King Riptor

For the walk evolutions just send one out and hop in a pokemon center roof they walk in circles trying to get to you.
Then like go get a snack or whatever

Terrendos

Dr. Chaos wrote: »

King Riptor wrote: »

Enlong wrote: »

Raid Greninja could be interesting.

It could either have Protean, so the party might need to choose types carefully, or Battle Bond, to make it snowball if he gets a KO.

Protean works differently now so it won't be as bad

Battle bond would be insane and make solo attempts that much harder

Couldn't pay me enough to run six star anihilape raids due to rage fist.

Only one I avoid like the plague.

I made the mistake yesterday of thinking the Arcanine I made for multiplayer battles would be useful against a 6 Star Ice Tera Type Mimikyu. "Ho boy, look at the damage that Flare Blitz did.... oh. Oh no."

Polaritie

Do raid pokes obey PP limits? Because giving a ditto a pokemon with all of 1 PP total to copy would be funny if so.

initiatefailure

Is there any reason to do the 3/4* delibird raids?

Terrendos

So I finally got into a 6 star Ditto raid today.

Still no perfect Speed IV. I have two Dittos for every other IV I could need, but the one stat that is most vital to be perfect... no dice.

*sigh*

Dr. Chaos

initiatefailure wrote: »

Is there any reason to do the 3/4* delibird raids?

The event ones?

They're advertised as giving a variety of tera shards which are pretty hard to come by. No ability patch drops though..bah.

https://www.serebii.net/scarletviolet/teraraidbattles/event-presentsfromdelibird.shtml

initiatefailure

Dr. Chaos wrote: »

initiatefailure wrote: »

Is there any reason to do the 3/4* delibird raids?

The event ones?

They're advertised as giving a variety of tera shards which are pretty hard to come by. No ability patch drops though..bah.

https://www.serebii.net/scarletviolet/teraraidbattles/event-presentsfromdelibird.shtml

The bonus shards are only on the 5*. As far as I can see, the only reason to do the 3/4 is they’re just incredibly easy to clear them out.

Kupi

The five-star Delibirds give you five shards each of three random types, in addition to the shards you get as normal raid drops. If you wanted to put a competitive team together, Tera Shards are the big grindy roadblock, so now is a great time to stock up.

akThera

It upsets me that Ruination doesn’t work in raids.

Today on Raid School: I let 3 Azumarill come to a 6-star Glimmora raid. I hope everyone learned something.

Halos Nach Tariff

Is there any chance I could persuade one of the resident scarlet version havers to hook me up with a Flutter Mane, and touch-trade a Koraidon? (Or regular trade for my Miraidon, if you prefer, whatever.) I'm trying to get the shiny charm and miming at which pokemon I'm after over random link trades can only go so far!

Terrendos

Halos Nach Tariff wrote: »

Is there any chance I could persuade one of the resident scarlet version havers to hook me up with a Flutter Mane, and touch-trade a Koraidon? (Or regular trade for my Miraidon, if you prefer, whatever.) I'm trying to get the shiny charm and miming at which pokemon I'm after over random link trades can only go so far!

There's a set of trade codes you can use for version exclusives, it's how I got most of the Violet ones. I'd offer to trade you them myself but I still haven't caught my backup Koraidon and I don't have time while visiting my family this weekend.

joshgotro

Trade codes you say?

initiatefailure

I forgot about cinderace was coming up I am not prepared

Terrendos

joshgotro wrote: »

Trade codes you say?

I hesitate to link because the site's garbage, but here:

https://www.dexerto.com/pokemon/pokemon-scarlet-violet-trade-codes-1997432/

Basically, the codes are the Dex numbers of the trade pairs. So if you want to trade Sprigatito and Fuecoco (either direction) you put in 0001-0004. Might have to check a few times before you get someone with the opposite game, but it worked well enough for me.

Hexmage-PA

What madman decided to make a Pokémon not just inspired by Godzilla, but also designed around an attack that parodies the goofiest moment in the weirdest Godzilla movie?



It's so specific it's bizarre. It's a whole Pokémon designed around one scene in one Godzilla movie to make the silliest thing Godzilla ever did even more ridiculous. Fucking madness.

EDIT: I just realized that the designer probably thought it was silly that Godzilla could fly but still thought the concept of Godzilla rocketing his spines into a monster was cool, so he tried to brainstorm ideas to make it work on the ground and came up with "what if he was sliding on ice?," which is why Baxcalibur is an Ice-Type.

a nu start

Completed my Dex. Couldn't wait for the wife to finish Violet to trade me all the exclusives, so I just did my own "speed"run of it.

Let's just say that "Cutscenes Off" setting is useless.

Halos Nach Tariff

Terrendos wrote: »

There's a set of trade codes you can use for version exclusives, it's how I got most of the Violet ones. I'd offer to trade you them myself but I still haven't caught my backup Koraidon and I don't have time while visiting my family this weekend.

Thank you, yes, I did manage to get the dex completed over the holiday break with this method (though, tbh, using the codes wasn't much different than just linking randomly and hoping the other player had the right game version and would get the hint, still took a couple of days to grab the two mons I needed!)

I did notice whilst breeding for pokedex completion that you don't seem to need to actually do anything in order to get eggs to show up at your picnics, like, it's not counting steps or anything, if I just leave the game idling for a bit will it produce eggs endlessly, or does it hit a limit at some point, does anyone know?

initiatefailure

I don’t know if there’s a limit but I did set the controller down for a bit one time and collected like 7-10ish eggs at once.

The other thing I’m not entirely sure is if they’ll still make eggs slower or not at all without egg power food

DemonStacey

So this game definitely has troubs.

But I gotta sat, being able to venture off with level 25 pokemon and 2 badges to catch the Pseudo-legendaru of the game and actually get to raise it on my adventure?

Thats the best thing ever!

None of that catching it 7 badges in, where it evolves after 1 battle and then has to catch up on levels nonsense anymore! I have a baby ice dragon and she's along for the journey!

Hexmage-PA

Finally finished the main story, which has handily overthrown Sun/Moon as my favorite in the franchise.

I had called the game's Professor being a villain, but them having been killed by a Pokémon they pulled to the present through an automated time machine and survived by a robotic clone that thinks their creator was mad but has no choice other than to serve as an extension of their creator's will beyond death was fucking nuts. Then after you beat the robot it tries to pretend to be the original Professor expressing remorse to comfort Arven only for it to get forcibly controlled again to use the very Pokemon that killed its creator against you, after which the AI flings itself through time since its presence is required for the machine to work. Jeez, that was wild.

The payoff for the legendary was phenomenal as well. Noticing Koraidon had appeared in the Pokémon menu after my other Pokémon were locked was really cool.

I'm curious what the DLC will introduce and what will be followed up on. Will we learn the truth behind Terastilization?

Zython

initiatefailure wrote: »

I don’t know if there’s a limit but I did set the controller down for a bit one time and collected like 7-10ish eggs at once.

The other thing I’m not entirely sure is if they’ll still make eggs slower or not at all without egg power food

I THINK the basket can only hold 10 eggs. And yes, you need Egg Power food to get eggs at a reasonable clip. There’s a restaurant in Alfornada that sells Egg Power lv 2 food for pretty cheap.

a nu start

Great Peanut Butter sammich gives you Egg lv2 and is just butter, peanut butter, and banana. I got about 50 eggs in 30 minutes for my Quaxly army. Just set a timer to check the basket every 5 minutes or so.

Halos Nach Tariff

Perfect, that's all good info, thanks! I wanna run an all-shiny team for next time I play through the game (after pokemon home access is opened up at least) but I still wanna use one of the other starters, sounds like grinding through eggs is a lot less involved than in previous games.
Though actually I don't have a non-english ditto, come to think of it, I'm so used to having a bunch from SwSh handy! Guess I need to source one of those too.

Terrendos

Zython wrote: »

initiatefailure wrote: »

I don’t know if there’s a limit but I did set the controller down for a bit one time and collected like 7-10ish eggs at once.

The other thing I’m not entirely sure is if they’ll still make eggs slower or not at all without egg power food

I THINK the basket can only hold 10 eggs. And yes, you need Egg Power food to get eggs at a reasonable clip. There’s a restaurant in Alfornada that sells Egg Power lv 2 food for pretty cheap.

Alfornada also just happens to be the town with a single long main street that you can easily run back and forth without hitting things constantly. Y'know, like if you had a bunch of eggs you were trying to hatch.

Coincidence? I think not.

Warlock82

That feeling when you manage to break the raid AI (not that raids being broken is a new thing :P)

I had a 6* ghost tera Kingsgambit which was giving me all kinds of problems because dark/steel counters most of my raid core (note to self, need more options than fairy/ghost mons...) and fighting flat out won't work on him due to ghost type. He was also spamming Thunder Wave constantly which just lead to even games where I didn't get blasted I'd die to timer thanks to missed turns (I came closest on Skeledirge but Torch Song just did way too little damage even with the boosts and Shadow Ball was semi useless once he shielded).

Finally had the idea to use Gholdengo. I don't think the programmers accounted for this one... while he wouldn't cast Thunder Wave against my Iron Hands because electric type, he DID see Gholdengo as a fair target despite "Good as Gold" making him immune to status effects. The AI must have been coded to always cast Thunder Wave if there wasn't a paralyze on the target or the target wasn't electric because that's literally all he did. He kept trying to Thunder Wave me over and over and over, no actual attacks what-so-ever (he did swords dance once :P). Was laughing pretty hard.

Incidentally, FFS please fix raids. I'm so god damn sick of the boss's HP constantly ping-ponging from 0 to half over and over. I'm sick of desync issues where I revive from being dead with only 10 hp (I can only assume I was hit by an attack the game didn't even show) and then get killed before I can even get one attack off. Or issues where he's removed my buffs about a minute before the game bothers to tell me (but he can get attacks in during that time of course! So no chance to brace for having my defense buffs missing). I'm sick of not being able to input commands for 2 minutes because I have to wait for about 20 dialog boxes to get out of the way... *sigh* It's so frustrating. Like legit, this has become the biggest issue of the game for me, even over the shit performance. I would rather take the 2 fps lake over this shit (but seriously why the hell does that lake lag so bad? It's like only when you're in the water too - what, are the splash animations super high fidelity? :P).

Edit:

Polaritie wrote: »

Do raid pokes obey PP limits? Because giving a ditto a pokemon with all of 1 PP total to copy would be funny if so.

Late reply but I think so? (at least for Ditto) All I know is, bring a lead as a magikarp with only splash and laugh as your companions destroy the helpless ditto :P

Zython

Terrendos wrote: »

Zython wrote: »

initiatefailure wrote: »

I don’t know if there’s a limit but I did set the controller down for a bit one time and collected like 7-10ish eggs at once.

The other thing I’m not entirely sure is if they’ll still make eggs slower or not at all without egg power food

I THINK the basket can only hold 10 eggs. And yes, you need Egg Power food to get eggs at a reasonable clip. There’s a restaurant in Alfornada that sells Egg Power lv 2 food for pretty cheap.

Alfornada also just happens to be the town with a single long main street that you can easily run back and forth without hitting things constantly. Y'know, like if you had a bunch of eggs you were trying to hatch.

Coincidence? I think not.

I still use the entrance to Area Zero, as you can just hold left/right and the camera will follow you.